The old serpent man knelt down devoutly, his head striking the rocky mountain at his feet so hard that the rocks shattered.
The humanoid beings among the ruins of the royal city, upon hearing the word “deity,” knelt down in unison, disregarding the fact that they were still on the battlefield, and loudly proclaimed, “We beg thee—descend, O deity!”
The rumbling sound traveled from the ruins to the plains, ascending towards the sky.
For the humanoid race, being able to invite deities to speak on their behalf is considered an honor.
Someone shouted, “Despicable.”
More people shouted angrily, “That’s not fair! This is absolutely an unfair fight. You guys are already so strong, how can this be considered fair?”
“Yeah, that’s definitely unfair.”
“You humanoid races are so despicable.”
Roars erupted from the crowd immediately, as everyone began to shout.
After the land of red fire, humanity came to know the two words: “divine” and “god.”
It was also after that that they came to know the existence of the gods.
This deity existing in the Demon Hunting Plains, regardless of its origin, oversees the rewards here. It occasionally appears before people in physical form, though such sightings are extremely rare.
Such mystery and ability would indeed make them indistinguishable from humans in the eyes of people.
Therefore, humans knew that there would be deities here.
As for the humanoid race, it has become their established rule that all major matters are decided by the gods.
The current strength between the two sides is clearly unbalanced. If the gods really show up and agree to such a battle, humanity will be truly doomed.
Only eleven people are capable of fighting against the fourth-stage humanoid race. Even if each of these eleven wins one battle, how can the remaining forty-nine battles be fought?
What kind of fairness is this?
“You dare to desecrate the divine? You’re asking for death!”
The warrior of the humanoid race also jumped up, pointing at the humans and shouting, “Everything is decided by the gods; this has nothing to do with you.”
“Damn it, you think that shouting for a fair fight is the same as having one? But is this fair?”
“Sixty individuals with the strength of Monarch or above? Where are we humans supposed to find them? It’s obvious that your side is stronger. How is this fair?”
“Everything is decided by the gods; you humans have no right to speak.”
“That is your god, and has nothing to do with us.”
“Dare to desecrate the gods, and I will kill you all right now.”
Humans were不甘心, and the humanoid races were even more furious.
No one knew who struck first, but the humanoid race fought back.
When it comes to defying the gods, the humanoid race has always resorted to battle.
Boom.
At the first moment, the fourth-stage Yuan beast lunged toward Lu Yu.
At the same time, three other fourth-stage humanoid warriors launched their attacks simultaneously.
“Ancestor, I will block Qin Hai with the snake bones!”
The snake demon let out a fierce cry and lunged violently toward Qin Hai…
The old snake man raised the snake bone in his hand high above his head once again.
Boom.
Qin Hai’s war blade struck the snake demon into the air, as he simultaneously lunged toward the old snake man.
“Even a snake person with the strength of a thousand zuns dares to block my path.”
The old snake man raised the snake bone and smashed it towards Qin Hai.
Countless beams of light shot toward Qin Hai from the snake’s eyes. With a sweep of his battle blade, Qin Hai slashed through the air, and the blade’s light split the void around him, devouring all the incoming beams.
This was merely a clash of skills. The snake bone in the old serpent man’s hand smashed into Qin Hai’s chest, causing the demon, over ten zhang tall, to collapse inwardly, its ribs and bones shattering.
Qin Hai’s blade also struck the old serpent man. However, the area that was hit immediately grew a large number of thick serpent scales, blocking the sword.
Suddenly, countless streaks of pitch-black energy erupted from the battle blade.
As the breath exhaled, the battle blade instantly slashed through the snake’s scales, then straight into the old snake man’s chest.
Boom.
In the snake’s skull eyes, two beams of light directly illuminated the battle blade.
Keng.
The war blade emitted a sharp metallic ring as it counterattacked, clashing with the black aura and radiant light.
In that split second, the positions of Qin Hai and the old serpent man lost all color, and even the heavens and earth fell silent.
Many people thought it was an illusion.
Both the humanoid clans and humans sensed the impending crisis in that very moment.
They wanted to escape, but it was too late.
Boom…
With a deafening explosion that shook the heavens, Qin Hai’s body was almost completely torn apart, leaving only bones and a few pieces of flesh still connected.
The old serpent man was immensely powerful; his chest was torn open with flesh flying everywhere, revealing his glistening white bones.
But other parts of him were merely bruised and bleeding.
The power of a Xingqi can no longer be compared to that of a Half-Xingqi, having even reached the point of disregarding levels and effortlessly eliminating anything in its path.
When the two individuals were already severely injured by the explosion, the shockwave had already swept across the ruins and plains.
Pieces of mountains were shaken down.
The ground swept by the shockwave shattered, and the people hit by the shockwave were blown to pieces.
Some people managed to block the attack, but they were severely injured, almost to the point of death.
This blow killed nearly ten thousand people, creating a vacuum on the battlefield.
Although Qin Hai possessed only a thousand zuns of power, with the star artifact in his hand, he managed to injure the old snake man, a terrifying expert with a strength of eight thousand zuns.
However, Qin Hai’s body was still much weaker and, at this moment, his injuries were more severe than those of the old snake man.
There was a large amount of bloodline condensation within Qin Hai’s bones, actively reconstructing his flesh and sinews.
The old snake man swung the snake bone in his hand and smashed it toward Qin Hai.
Behind Qin Hai, an additional demon appeared. It embraced Qin Hai and swiftly moved him sideways for dozens of miles.
The old snake man’s sweeping strike transformed into an invisible dragon of raging energy, which roared into the battlefield with tremendous force.
Blood and flesh flew across a vast area with a diameter of more than a thousand zhang, with at least ten thousand enemies dead, no matter who they were.
“Do you have the courage to strike, but not the courage to withstand my move?” The old serpent man seemed to regain his youthful vigor, his spine straightened as he lunged toward Qin Hai.
As soon as Qin Hai’s flesh and blood had reformed, he saw the old serpent person lunging toward him.
The old snake man’s snake bone in his hand had already regrown into a new snake tail.
Boom.
The second strike collided, and Qin Hai spat out a large mouthful of blood. Although he managed to block it, his arm was nearly shattered.
The old snake man was also coughing up blood, but not nearly as severely as Qin Hai.
The residual power of the star weapon does not distinguish between friend and foe, killing several thousand more people.
Both sides retreated, and no one dared to stand in the center of the battlefield anymore.
Everyone was focused on the battlefield, but only Lu Yu was watching the two star artifacts.
After obtaining the method of reforging the Star Artifact from Emperor Ling, he also gained extensive knowledge about Star Artifacts.
Now he was gazing at two star-forged artifacts. While others saw only their forms, he was looking at something far more primal.
He possesses the art of forging weapons, the technique of drawing stars, and even the celestial star method. Seeing two star artifacts would allow him to gain a deeper understanding of such items.
Lu Yu was laughing maniacally in his heart: Go ahead, fight, the more fiercely and intensely you battle, the more data I can collect. In the future, when I forge my own star artifact, I will create one far more powerful than yours.
The battlefield in the sky became increasingly intense. Qin Hai, together with another demon, barely managed to block the old snake man’s attack.
The collision of celestial objects splattered countless points of starlight from the sky, cascading down to the earth. It seemed as if an entire river of stars had poured down from the heavens.
But such brilliance could attract no one.
Everyone knows that this battle is a matter of life and death for them!
Qin Hai and the other demon kept coughing up blood nonstop. The more they fought, the more they realized how terrifying the star artifact in the old serpent man’s hand truly was—it seemed as if it were about to awaken.
In the blink of an eye, Qin Hai and the demon retreated once again.
As this strike ended, the snake bone in the old snake man’s hand had already grown to two zhang in length, and flesh and blood had begun to form on its surface.
Although the old snake man was spitting blood, he still laughed loudly: “The stronger one’s power, the greater the strength of the star artifact one can unleash. You’re not even at the peak of the Thousand Sovereigns’ power; how much strength can you possibly bring out from the star artifact? You want to stop me? How could you ever stop me?”
The old Snake Elder waved his hand again, and with a swing of the snake bone, a black snake shadow, tens of thousands of feet long, descended from the sky.
The shadow of the snake swung its tail and swept toward Qin Hai.
Qin Hai and the Zunzhi expert spat out large mouthfuls of blood onto their battle blades.
With a loud humming sound, the war blade leaped up, transforming into a blade of light ten thousand zhang long, and slashed toward the serpent’s shadow.
Boom!
The war blade pressed against the blade light, while the shadow of the snake rolled in the sky, trying to suppress the blade’s radiance.
Qin Hai and the Supreme stood in the void, their expressions extremely solemn, as if their entire focus was fixed upon the battle blade.
The old snake man did not move either, but instead spat a mouthful of blood onto the snake bone.
Boom.
The aura emanating from the serpent’s shadow grew even stronger, and it even began to split into a second head.
The old serpent man’s expression turned slightly pale, but he appeared even more spirited. The snake bone in his hand had already regenerated a small amount of flesh halfway along its length.
He burst into laughter and said, “What a bunch of fools, humans will always be so stupid. Do you think our race’s star artifact can only be restored through blood? As long as there is battle, the stronger the enemy, the faster it recovers. When the Serpent King knew he would die, he foresaw the crisis our race would face, so he created this star artifact capable of continuous recovery to protect our people.”
All the snake people knelt on the ground, sorrowfully chanting, causing everyone on the surface to become tense and anxiously fix their gaze on the sky.
If humans lose this battle, it will truly be a defeat.
The power of that star weapon is simply unstoppable.
“Lu Yu, what are you waiting for? Get up here too!” Qin Hai shouted loudly without turning his head.
Lu Yu frowned and, using his levitation ability, stood in the air.
“Three people?” The old serpent man laughed heartily, “Two King’s Powers? This is something unseen before. This battle truly surprises me. No one has ever faced two King’s Powers and survived. Today, not only will I survive, but I will also kill!”
The old serpent man’s voice grew increasingly sinister as he spoke, and by the end, he even let out a chilling, eerie screech.
“How to do it?” Lu Yu looked at the war blade in front of him and compared it with the divine fragment in his hand, surprisingly discovering that the fluctuations between the two were so similar and close.
This also made Lu Yu firmly believe in the words of the Spirit King.
A fragment of a star artifact can also be reforged into a star artifact.
Qin Hai spat out a mouthful of blood and snarled, “Channel the King’s Power into the star weapon to enhance its power. Lu Yu, don’t hold anything back. We are both demons with the King’s Power, and we will both become the ‘King’ in the future. Do you still care about dignity after being defeated here?”
Lu Yu nodded, bit his tongue, and then exhaled a breath onto the battle blade.
“Boom, boom, boom.”
The war blade trembled, and shards of the broken blade began to emit swirling beams of light.
As Lu Yu spat out a mouthful of blood, he immediately felt as if the blood within his body was about to ignite, devouring nearly the vitality of a full-grown person in an instant.
Qin Hai said coldly, “Allowing you access to the Star Artifact brings me no benefit. If it weren’t for the interests of this plain, I absolutely wouldn’t have let you come aboard. The Star Artifact requires massive amounts of life force to operate—although ordinary people can activate it, only the power of rune markings is the purest and most powerful. If a common Supreme at the Thousand Venerable stage were to use the Star Artifact, it would likely cost a hundred Venerables’ worth of life force with just one activation. That’s why this old man has decided to act personally. With his strength at Eight Thousand Venerables, we’ll either wear him down to death, or the two of us will die.”
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